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So I was looking at some NFL draft information and came across some heights and weights for prospective players. I’m currently about 6′2 (rounded up) and ~195lbs. This got me to wondering what kind of positions I could play if I were a tad more athletic than I am now.

If I had a mean streak in me, I could play Safety as I found a couple of players listed at roughly 6′2″ and 190lbs.

If I added more muscle, I have decent height to play WR as there were a few wide receivers listed around 6′2″ and usually 210lbs. Also if I couldn’t catch anything, I’d also have a good height/weight for a cornerback.

I would also be able to play my favorite position of quarterback. Most of the prospective players were around 6′2″ to 6′4″ and usually around 200lbs. Even Drew Brees who’ll be playing in the super bowl tomorrow is listed at 6′0″, so I have a good height for a QB though maybe a tad on the shorter end.

Running back is also possible but most of the listed RB’s were a little shorter and a bit heavier (more muscle).

So it looks like the NFL could be in my future! Too bad I’d probably get killed the first time someone attempted to tackle me.

So over this past Christmas holiday, Mazie and I did a little bit of decorating to our house. We’re still slow in the whole decorating aspect, but we’ll get there eventually. Anyways, we were thinking of what to hang on the walls, so Mazie came up with the idea of framing some photos that I’ve taken.

I think I’ve taken over 20,000 photos in the past few years, so there had to be some good ones to hang up. One issue is that a large majority of my photos are typically of people, specifically of the YG. It might be a little weird for someone to walk into our house and see a huge portrait of a YG kid. So anyways, after sorting through a ton of photos, we decided to start by printing and framing the following photos.

So we printed these three photos to start with and hung them up. They actually came out looking pretty good printed in black and white. Nothing too spectacular, but we enjoy them nonetheless.

So last week I was performing my civic duty by going in for jury selection. This was the first time that I had ever been even selected so I really didn’t have any idea of what to expect. Since I had already postponed my jury selection once, I was unable to do so again, so my call number was one of the lower ones, pretty much ensuring that I would have to go in.

So when I got to the county courthouse, I found out the details of what would be going on. I would be going through jury selection on a civil trial. Fortunately, I had also brought a book that day since I was doing a lot of waiting. When our group was finally called into the courtroom, the judge, attorneys, and their clients were all there and the judge described the case to us.

There were about 40 or so potential jurors also seated in the room waiting to see what would happen next. The clerk went and randomly drew names to see which 18 I believe would be seated. The case was related to a car accident that occurred over two years ago. The plaintiff was basically suing the defendants over the accident. The defendants were already found liable, so I’m guessing they got a police ticket at the accident.

After the 18 jurors were seated, the lawyers for both sides went through the process of questioning the jurors about the case. They asked all sorts of questions were even the smallest detail could relate to the case. Whether a person knew the doctors who performed surgery, whether a person had been treated at the same hospital, and so on. This went on for around an hour before the lawyers went to the back to select the eight jurors to listen to the case.

One thing that I thought was interesting was the purpose of the jury was to basically determine how much money the plaintiff would receive in the end. The jury would be putting a monetary value to what they believed was the price that the plaintiff paid in pain and suffering. The amount that the jury could come up with could be anything since it was completely up to the jury to decide. Maybe the plaintiff’s pain and suffering was only worth $100, or maybe it was worth $1 million. It would’ve been interesting to have been a juror on the trial to be one that decides how much someone’s pain and suffering is worth. Not only do you control how much is paid, but the jury can possibly put the defendant into bankruptcy with a large enough number. Since I wasn’t seated/selected, I have no clue how the case ended, whether the selected jury came up with a big number, or a small number.

I’m not quite sure I agree with all the litigation that’s involved in the country nowadays where people sue others left and right to try and make a quick dollar. However, this could easily change if I were involved in a situation where I need to sue someone else. Is someone’s pain and suffering really worth a huge amount of money? Hard to say. What if the jury came up with a small value, would their pain and suffering be any less than if the jury had ended up with a large number? Maybe I should’ve been a lawyer instead of an engineer, especially since I didn’t think the defendant’s lawyer was really doing that good of a job from what I could tell.

So I had a chance to do a little photo touch up recently. Can you notice the difference? If you click on the picture, you can get a larger view.

So seeing how I took the liberty to edit my own picture, what do you think about such touch ups in general for photos? One could easily remove blemishes, change how people look, or even make people look better all through editing of the photo. Is this wrong to do? Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

So I was reading the news and came across a couple of articles talking about the benefits of being tall.

In one article, the topic was on height and happiness, basically talking about how on average people who are taller are generally happier. This was attributed to taller people generally earning more money than their shorter peers, as well as on average being better educated than their shorter peers. Also, being tall can help with the self-esteem someone who’s tall is more likely to command the attention of others than someone shorter.

The second article was related to better athletes being taller, slender, and heavier. The article mentioned atheletes such as Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt and how they’re taller than most of their competition. The researchers tracked world record track runners and how their size had been increasing over time, with Usain Bolt standing a tall 6 feet 4 inches. Michael Phelps himself is also 6 feet 4 inches tall.

In other news, there was a study that came out saying that organic food was no healthier than non-organic food. So no need to spend the extra money on the organic stuff!

Just some more fun articles on the benefits of height

So as I was getting ready for work today, an idea popped into my head as to a post topic I could write on. This post idea comes at a relatively good time seeing how my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. With gaining another year, I felt like writing a post on signs that you’re getting older. Most of these are from personal experience, so hopefully you’ll find some humor in what I’m writing.

1. You spend more time and money taking care of your home than you do yourself. Since owning a home, I now find myself spending more time and money for my home than I do for myself. When you’re young, you want to spend money on primarily yourself. You don’t have to worry about maintence for your home since your parents always took care of that. However, when you get older and get your own place, you begin to have to spend both time and money to keep things in order. Getting your yard to look nice becomes weekly event that constantly needs attention. You don’t want to be the only neighbor to have brown grass and weeds as high as your knees.

2. A Night out on the town ends at 9 instead of starting at 9. When you’re in college, nothing really starts until after 9PM at night. However, the older you get, the more you find yourself ending your night early so that you can get yourself to sleep. I’ve also found that I also can no longer sleep in, and that I naturally wake up earlier and earlier. On the rare occasion that I do end up staying up past midnight, I find myself really tired and just waiting to go back home to go to sleep.

3. Loud music and noises begin to annoy you. This one I find myself more and more being annoyed with. It begins to really bother me when there’s a loud noise/music going on in the same room that I’m in. When I was younger, this wasn’t such a big deal, however nowadays I just enjoy my peace and quiet.

4. You begin to realize that you’re now older than the sports stars you cheer for. When you’re young, you look up to sports stars because they’re a star! However, when you get older, you begin to realize that “Hey, I’m older than Lebron James and can’t play basketball for the life of me” This is when you get sad and realize that you’re old. Instead of thinking “I’ll be a football star when I’m older” you start thinking, “If my back and knees were better I could do what they do” This can also apply to movie or music stars, take your pick.

5. You realize you have no idea who’s “popular” on the music scene. I was never really big on music. Never having really bought any CDs. Even so, I was still at least current on who was considered “Big” at the time when I was growing up. Nowadays, I’ll turn on the radio and have no idea who’s even singing the song. This one time, while I was watching American Idol, they had Flo Rider on as a singer. Not knowing who he was, I thought his name was pronounced “Florida” only to find out that it was “Flow Rider”… oops

6. It takes longer for your body to recover. When I was younger, I used to play soccer and have no problems playing 3 or 4 games during a weekend. I could run around and not get sore, and not have to worry about any health issues. Now as I’m older, I get sore just trying to pull weeds out of the ground. I also have to watch out how I lift things so as to not hurt my back. Maybe I should try to get back into shape…

7. You keep saying “When I was younger…” In working with a youth group of kids ranging from 12-18, I find myself constantly saying phrases that reference how old I am now. I’ll tell them about how things used to be when I was younger, or how I used to do things when I was younger. The phrase just comes out more and more, and I’m only 27! You definitely know you’re old when you start telling others about what you were doing when you were younger.

Well, here are 7 signs that you’re getting old! I find myself going through all of these. While I know I’m not that old yet, I’ve already passed the quarter century mark. I’ll definitely know I’m old when I find myself having spent more years out of school than in school. I still have a few more years before that becomes true.